Paying With Your Life
A powerful reminder to manage your most valuable currency
A powerful quote I can’t stop thinking about.
"Your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. At the end of your life, looking back, whatever compelled your attention from moment to moment is simply what your life will have been. So when you pay attention to something you don't especially value, it's not an exaggeration to say that you're paying with your life.” - Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks.
Attention is the most valuable currency we have. It is more precious than time — because it shapes our experience of time. It’s why Simone Weil, the French philosopher, said what our children intuitively understand: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”.
More than 12% of 2024 is over. What deserves more of your attention and generosity? And what should you pay less attention to?
